Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons Nature, Literature, and the Arts

Haruo Shirane2011
Elegant representations of nature, explicitly the four seasons, fill a wide range of Japanese genres and media, from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and annual observances. Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this first occurred and explicates the richly encoded meanings these representations embodied.
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